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Welcome to Stash Avalanche. I'm Ana. After spending 10 years in Ireland, I moved back to the UK in 2016. Life has changed a lot, but the worrying hoard of fabric, wool, plants, plant pots, baking tins, dinky bits of stationary, bags and shoes hasn't changed. This is kindly tolerated by Mr G, Stashlet and the Grey Cat, which is good enough for me. But one day there will be a stash avalanche for real.
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Thursday, 12 April 2012

Sun hat #2

Having had a bit of a ponder on how to construct this hat, I hit on the idea of bias binding - not round the edge of the brim as previously mentioned, but round the brim-crown seam, like this...

I have to say the inside of this hat brings me great joy.

Using this method makes a reversible hat - you could even put bias on both sides if you wanted. Unfortunately I was too clever and sewed a name tape into the crown, so this particular hat is not reversible, but the orange+spots combo is so fabulous I may have to make another one.

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Having had a bit of a ponder on how to construct this hat, I hit on the idea of bias binding - not round the edge of the brim as previously mentioned, but round the brim-crown seam, like this...

I have to say the inside of this hat brings me great joy.

Using this method makes a reversible hat - you could even put bias on both sides if you wanted. Unfortunately I was too clever and sewed a name tape into the crown, so this particular hat is not reversible, but the orange+spots combo is so fabulous I may have to make another one.